22. October - 26. November 1997 on Geco-Searcher

Waiting for the helicopter There is some bad weather in GOM as well
Maritime crew is fishing Chief Off. Helicopter Landing Officer

Beginning with the last.  The on-coming crew are giving the off-going crew  their lifevests after a trip with lots of "Waiting On Weather.   One of the maritime crew in the engine room managed to get a fish after shift and there were fresh bread down in the mess.  The HLO (helicopter landing officer),   here the Chief Officer, is seeing to that everything is ok before crew 1 (us) is taking off.  

Gunners in action

Fun trip with the girlies

The gunners had a quite good trip this trip, not too many problems with the guns. The Observers had only some problems with the printers and Navigation had difficulties in taking the ts-dip (temp/salinity).  Check the time for when the Navigator operator arrived back from the mob-boat!   12:05, time for shift change!!  Looks like the swell was pretty heavy out there!

Weath through after ts dip Printer problems